Cannot start Awesome; libxcb-keysums.so.0 cannot be opened.

monovibe · 2009-04-21 19:13:57

Thanks for this I was just wondering for how long i'll hv to stay with my openbox (not that it's bad but u know something else is better... for my case ) ;P

devil_kc · 2009-04-22 05:41:23

this wont work for me. i can not click with mouse, awesome won't resporn to my keyboard... dbus issue?

KimTjik · 2009-04-22 06:25:10

devil_kc wrote:

this wont work for me. i can not click with mouse, awesome won't resporn to my keyboard... dbus issue?

The rc.lua config file has changed at least in comparison to awesome-git that I used before. Key-bindings have a different syntax and so on. Try to start with a plain default one found in /etc/xdg/awesome (if you haven't already).

R.E.J Banson · 2009-04-22 14:32:09

Can someone provide xcb-util-0.3.3-1 (32bit)?

#edit: Found it myself. :)

Last edited by R.E.J Banson (2009-04-22 15:49:55)

xilef · 2009-04-22 16:08:28

I have been experiencing similar behaviour and am unable to narrow down the exact source. I have noticed one thing is odd though, it DOES work fine if I boot into runlevel 3 and then 'startx'. Going through 'slim' (in runlevel 5) disables my keyboard (but not mouse) in awesome. Xfce works fine regardless.

Does runlevel 3 work for others? Why would it be different??

KimTjik · 2009-04-22 17:47:32

I can't verify your experience xilef. I use SLIM as a login manager and since pressh updated the community package everything has worked well for me, key- and mouse-bindings and themes. Runlevel hasn't any impact on my install of Awesome. As I wrote above syntaxes in rc.lua however have changed a lot, or previous awesome-git versions are different to this release, hence I've copied & pasted between the new default one and my previous and made adjustments to get the functions I want (except no wicked... even though I haven't tried but I suppose it only works with the git-version).

xilef · 2009-04-23 09:22:01

Well it turns out a rewrite of my keybindings did the trick. Still not sure why the method of starting awesome would make a difference though. Thanks for the heads up KimTjik.

_artem_ · 2011-12-08 21:48:03

sorry for necro-posting but the same issue comes AFTER upgrading 2 packages:

upgraded xcb-util (0.3.6-2 -> 0.3.8-1)
upgraded startup-notification (0.12-1 -> 0.12-2)

on the prev versions awesome starts without any errors. but after the upgrade it won't start due to libxcb-keysyms.so.1 doesn't present in the system.
as it's a libxcb-keysyms.so.1 I guess the bug is in the xcb-util package ( I have just reported it in bug-zilla: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27497 )

Last edited by _artem_ (2011-12-08 21:48:50)

jomasti · 2011-12-09 00:36:05

_artem_ wrote:

sorry for necro-posting but the same issue comes AFTER upgrading 2 packages:
upgraded xcb-util (0.3.6-2 -> 0.3.8-1)
upgraded startup-notification (0.12-1 -> 0.12-2)
on the prev versions awesome starts without any errors. but after the upgrade it won't start due to libxcb-keysyms.so.1 doesn't present in the system.
as it's a libxcb-keysyms.so.1 I guess the bug is in the xcb-util package ( I have just reported it in bug-zilla: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27497 )

Did you rebuild awesome?

k_f · 2011-12-09 01:14:44

I had the same issue but it was solved after I upgraded awesome from archlinux.fr repo, the new version requires 2 new package from extra: xcb-util-image and xcb-util-wm.

ngoonee · 2011-12-09 02:10:06

_artem_ wrote:

sorry for necro-posting but the same issue comes AFTER upgrading 2 packages:
upgraded xcb-util (0.3.6-2 -> 0.3.8-1)
upgraded startup-notification (0.12-1 -> 0.12-2)
on the prev versions awesome starts without any errors. but after the upgrade it won't start due to libxcb-keysyms.so.1 doesn't present in the system.
as it's a libxcb-keysyms.so.1 I guess the bug is in the xcb-util package ( I have just reported it in bug-zilla: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27497 )

Rebuild awesome, if you'd checked the comments on the AUR page you'd have seen that other people (including me) have already encountered and solved this.

Closing the thread. Please refer to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27 especially the rules of thumb, you could have just opened a new thread.

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